With the Williams team's disappointment result in the early part of the 2013, there's not much to discuss about. So i've decided to bring back this thread and share with you my memorabilia collection. Since my last update, I've been working on the 1/20 Wolf kit of 1985 Toleman with the Teo Fabi figure (GF brand).

sorry i clicked the wrong button (should be preview instead), so here is the rest of the update pictures.

this is the instruction manual and decal sheet

here are some of the white metal parts, as you can see, they are quite rough that need to be sanded.

these are photo-etch parts for the front and rear wing end plates, seatbelts and radiator etc.

the white metal wheels also need some works

Work has started on the rear wing plates - the rouge edges have been sanded and smoothed - i wanted to continue working on it a little more, but i found that the plates were beginning to separate, so had to cut short of my work on this to preserve the plates.

Now it's time to work on the 1/20 Teo Fabi figure - this is the GF Figure i chose to use

The figure has already been sprayed with a few coats of primer (gray and white) and then the base colour of white. Now i'm masking certain parts of the figure to leave the white on - before i sprayed a coat of green.

Masking of the helmet for the bottom green portion

Done, the tone of green is not 100% accurate, i should've spent more time on fine tuning the colour. Anyway here is how it looks.

Removed the masking tape to reveal the result.

The bottom green has been sprayed, now i'm masking (using both tape and liquid mask) the helmet for the red portions. Remember there's a thin white line in between the colours, so it's pretty tricky.

here is the result.

Now needed to mask for the top green portion of the helmet.

Done, but the white lines in between are too thick and the colour edges are quite rough.

I had re-worked on the helmet to obtain a better result. The helmet has been attached to the body.

The only thing left for the figure is the decal (which i still need to create myself) and the visor.

Next up after the Toleman will be the 1985 Williams cars - Nigel and Keke are eager to test their cars. I took me a long time to find the 85 Williams - FW09B and FW10 - they just arrived last week and this week respectively, so Keke (which was built 3 months ago) finally got his car. Since Rosberg was the lead driver of the team in 85, he's given the FW10 while Nigel would settle with the FW09B.

I sent an email to Tom Walsh ( onlyracecars@hotmail.com )and my kit arrived within 2 weeks from Brazil. This kit costs about $214 USD, shipping is already included for any Wolf 1/20 kit.

If you don't hear back from Tom, email him again as my initial email went to his junk box.

the 1/20 figure is a GF brand, you can see the choices from this website and this site lists all the online stores you can purchase their figures.
[gf-models.eu]

As for the 2 Williams kits - FW09B and FW10 - these are sold out long long time ago and i could only find one off on the Japan Yahoo auction page. I've been looking for these kits actively the last 4 months and finally found someone listed these kits in the last few weeks.

covered up the bottom part of the figure and prepared to spray the shoe colour (always try to spray instead of brush paint it as much as possilbe as the finish would be smoother)

because i couldn't find a decal for the Nacional logo on Ayrton's cap, i decided to spray my own logo, by masking out the logo (with white as the base colour) and then sprayed a coat of blue.

sprayed a couple coat of blue - I used the Zero paint blue colour (for the Williams FW11), and i like this tone of blue which is very similar to the cap's colour. The masking tape was yet to be removed to reveal the Nacional logo on the cap.

Here is the result

the side and back of the figure - with the face and hair painted.

this is the end result with the helmet painted and decal applied. Note that the yellow I used for the helmet i slighly lighter than the yellow on the overall as Ayrton's 1985 helmet was in a lighter tone.

I was actually working on the Williams FW10 while i took a break out to make the two Lotus figures. Below are WIP photos of the FW10.

Drilled holes and test fit all the suspension arms before putting on the primer.

i've applied about 3 coats of grey and another 3 coat of white primer to the body. Now i'm working on painting the uner-body black. I wanted to paint this area first as it's easy to mess up the exterior body if i'm not careful. So i wanted to get this out of the way before any colour paint or decal is applied.

the underneath black is done and i've now sprayed about 3 coat of white paint to the body.

now is onto the difficult but interesting bits. i've previously photocopied the decal sheet and i'm using this as a template to cut out the masking area for my masking tape.

this is the masking tape

applied onto the body to cover up area that i don't want to get the yellow colour.

here is the result

Next up is the blue area.

alot of working was going into the masking to ensure there's no bleeding through to the yellow and white area - this is critical. if not done properly, would require a un-do and re-do of the whole process.

here is the result - i'm mldly satisfied with it, with someo the blue paint was not straight due to the very tight area around the cockpit sides, luckily, there's the red thin line to cover up the imperfections.

After applying a couple coats clear coat (to seal the paint), now i can apply some decals onto the body. Note that i've also brush painted the interior cockpit black, this is a very difficult task (for me) as it's easy to mess up the exterior color if not careful, very very worrying when i was working on it and it took a lot of revisions / touch up to achieve a reasonabe result.

Keke is eagar to get into the car, but there's still a long way to go.

That's a very cool hobby rosberg. Awesome work, particularly on the drivers! An idea for you, photograph your models from the same angle as a real photo of the car and post side by side. Would look great!

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